12 thoughts on “Surviving With An 11 Year Old On The AutoImmune Protocol Paleo Diet”

Doggie treats,
From Talara Witherspoon Parrish :
Dog treats are cheaper and healthier to make I have found. Scarlett loves apples wrapped in turkey and dehydrated for a couple of days. I make the carrots wrapped in ham too among other things. Less expensive than prepackaged treats.
Just slice you apples, carrots, pears and take inexpensive sandwich meat (usually $2.50/3.00) and cut in strips and wrap around the fruit and put in the dehydrator for 48 hours. Store in air tight container or ziplock. I even do just the fruit with no meat and Scarlett loves these. Don’t cut fruit too small bc it shrinks up during the process a lot.

I just found the world’s simplest quiche crust recipe online and am VERY smug about my crust-making skills now! Here’s the recipe for one crust:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup olive or canola oil ( I use EVOO!)
1/4 cup ICE COLD water
With a fork, mix flour and salt. With a whisk, mix together cold water and oil until thickened. Pour into flour, mix with fork. You can either press into a 9 inch. pie plate or roll it out before putting in the plate. I’ve tried both ways, but I prefer rolling it out. I’ve doubled this recipe and saved half in the frig to use the next day, too. Wonderful! Now, EVERYone can be smug!

Ask me, or your local pig farmer, or your butcher, whoever you buy your sausage and porkchops from, for leaf lard… Leaf lard is the fat from around the loin area and surrounding the kidneys.

It will come in a large piece, so use a sharp knife or kitchen shears to cut it into about 1 inch pieces.

Put it into your crock pot on a very low setting… If you render out the fat too fast it will discolor.

Keep in mind it may take a day or more to render all the fat out of the lard.

Every couple hours .. or whenever you think about it.. dip out most of the liquid. You want to strain this into a clean, HOT pint or half pint mason jar. Use cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer for this. Put a lid and ring on the jar and it should seal just fine. I seal mine.. but I also store them in the refrigerator. As it cools you will be able to see how white and fine your lard is !

The little pieces of meat that you are left with are called cracklins, I like to salt them a little when I store them , and then I use them to season beans, greens, and oh gosh ! Cracklin Cornbread !!! yummy : ) enjoy !

Whipped cream. Now is the time to stop buying pre-made whipped cream. It’s mostly oil anyway, not much cream. It’s simple. Put a little cream in a mixing bowl. Whip with a whisk until you have stiff peaks, add a couple drops of vanilla extract, or a vanilla bean if you have it, a little powdered sugar, and whisk it together. If you put the mixing bowl into another mixing bowl containing ice it makes it a little easier. The more cream you use, the longer it will take to whip. It doesn’t take much, what you’re doing is whipping air into it, so your volume quadruples, if not more.

I like sweet cream butter .. and in the winter time .. every once in a while, if the floor that the churn is sitting on is too cold .. my butter turns into whipped cream instead .. which makes for a good excuse to bake something!

Tomato sauce. We buy jars of tomato sauce at the store, that have corn syrup, and who knows what else, while it is very easy to make your own pasta sauce. Just stew some tomatoes for a while, add some garlic, onions, salt, pepper, maybe a little sugar if like sweetness. Chili flake if you like spice. Maybe some herbs, a little olive oil, a little bit of parmesan. Simple, all you really need is tomatoes.